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Do you think Bannon has the ability to organize such a thing? He strikes me as a guy that the puppet masters would use until he showed signs of getting the bit between his teeth. Then he'd be disposed of. I'm thinking of Röhm and the SA, though I doubt Bannon could pull together anything like the SA.

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I hope not but I wouldn’t underestimate him. We’ve seen the results of having “a failure of imagination “ when it came to Nazi Germany. To think those forces aren’t present in the USA would be an error. Look at some of Trump’s pardons and you see a deeply troubling pattern.

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There was indeed a failure of imagination in the early Hitler years, notably among the conservatives who thought they could control him. But the non-Jewish Germans mostly knew what they were supporting. What they failed to imagine was the resulting war, especially the U.S. involvement in it -- but that failure isn't hard to understand, not least because they saw the strength of the America First movement but not the clever maneuvering of FDR et al. to mobilize support for the Allies before the U.S. entered the war, and they sure couldn't have foreseen Pearl Harbor.

I totally agree that "those forces" are present in the U.S. They're so obvious in virtually all Republican-run states that one would have to be in serious denial to miss them. Knowing a little U.S. history also helps.

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Bannon is a creation of Robert Mercer. He definitely has access to the funds that it would require.

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OK, but it takes more than funds to create a movement. If money were all it took, the plutocrats would be totally running the show by now. They have the dollars, but they don't have the votes, or the boots on the ground.

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Regrettably I disagree. Paul Weyrich was able to “marry” this group with the Christianism (Christian nationalism) movement. This is the MAGA base.

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Not sure what you're disagreeing with. Weyrich didn't organize the Christian nationalists or the white supremacists, or the anti-choice Catholics and white evangelicals either.

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I believe Weyrich co-founded the Council for National Policy (CNP) which is very involved in aligning the groups you mentioned with $. Suggest reading SHADOW NETWORK by Anne Nelson and THE POWER WORSHIPERS by Katherine Stewart. Also new film BAD FAITH now streaming on Apple.

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